Javier Tolcachier

Thousands of demonstrators staged a new “Day of Resistance” in opposition to the judicial reform promoted by Benjamin Netanyahu’s extreme right-wing government. The street protests, which blocked several roads and spread throughout the country’s nerve centres, were backed by the…

A few months before the end of the 18th century, more precisely on 15 July 1799, the French captain Pierre Bouchard discovered a piece of carved rock near the Egyptian town of Rashid, which would later be known as the…

What do Argentina and South Sudan have in common? At first glance, nothing. While one has a vast territory – it is the largest Spanish-speaking country in the world – the African nation could fit in the territory of two…

On 4 July 1976 in Algiers, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Peoples was proclaimed. It was the result of a complex process that coincided with the emergence of many new nations in Africa and Asia, the fruit of…

Sunday 25th June saw the completion of a new phase of a series of voting days in which, for reasons of electoral speculation, the election of executive and legislative positions at the provincial and local level in the province of…

This phrase by the conservative philosopher and poet Jorge Luis Borges seems to have guided Peronism’s decisions around a unity list. A list that will include Sergio Massa as presidential pre-candidate, accompanied on the ticket by Agustín “el Chivo” Rossi,…

On 18 June 1992, an event of singular significance took place. At the Russian Academy of Sciences, the humanist thinker Silo gave a lecture on “The Crisis of Civilisation and Humanism”. Unnoticed or usually silenced by the hegemonic Western press,…

On 23 May 1991, on the occasion of the launch of a collection of his work by Editorial Planeta, Silo gave a conference at the Teatro Gran Palace in Santiago de Chile, explaining some of the features of his literary…

In the framework of the First Meeting of Humanist Culture, on 14 May 1994, Silo, founder, and promoter of the New Humanism movement, presented his book “Letters to my Friends on the social and personal crisis at the present time”…

The electoral victories of Gustavo Petro, Xiomara Castro, Gabriel Boric, Pedro Castillo, the return of MAS to the Bolivian government and Lula to the Brazilian presidency, together with the electoral victories of Andrés Manuel López Obrador and Alberto Fernández inaugurated…